Above: The public is invited to join the Library’s pollination preservation garden club to help clean seeds. (images cropped from flyer and photo from Native Plant Gardens Facebook post)
This fall, volunteers have been busily cleaning seeds for sowing this winter and planting next year. At the next meeting of the garden club hosted by the Southborough Library, members, and anyone who wants to join them, will focus on the effort.
The Gardens that Work club was launched by the Open Space Preservation Commission (OSPC) this spring to support and learn from the Pollination Preservation Garden at the Library. Their next meeting is scheduled for a week from today, Wednesday, December 27th from 6:30 – 8:00 pm. The Library promotes:
Are you curious about what makes this library garden different from other pollinator gardens? Would you like to learn how you can have beautiful flowers in your own yard while helping our ecosystem? The club will explore how beautiful native landscapes can restore ecological value to out landscapes and help prevent species extinction. Celebrate biodiversity through pollination!
This session will specifically be focused on cleaning seeds. Volunteers are welcome.
The library’s garden isn’t the only native plant/pollinator garden in town, or even the only one organized/sponsored by the Town. There are also native gardens at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land and Beal’s Preserve. And the Native Gardens of Southborough Facebook Group has encouraged members with private gardens on their own properties.
This fall the Facebook Group promoted multiple seed cleaning workshops at the Senior Center. (See photos left posted from one of the events.)
In January, OSPC will look to use the prepared seeds in their Winter Sow Workshop(s) to foster seedlings that can be planted in the spring. Stay tuned for those details.
